Call for Chapters: Creating Dynamic Space in Higher Education: Modern Shifts in Policy, Competencies, and Governance

Editors

George Areba, Kisii University, Kenya
Billiah Gisore, Kisii University, Kenya
Evelyn Njurai, Kisii University, Kenya

Call for Chapters

Proposals Submission Deadline: May 19, 2024
Full Chapters Due: July 21, 2024
Submission Date: July 21, 2024

Introduction

‘Creating Dynamic Space in Higher Education: Modern Shifts in Policy, Competencies, and Governance’’ is an edited volume that explores the 21st Century Higher Education transformative dynamic landscape of research, innovations, teaching, and learning with emphasis on shifts in policies, leadership, competencies, finance, personnel, strategies, directions, infrastructure, challenges, mitigations among other salient contemporary aspects. This book offers all-inclusive treasured insights to 21st-century higher education managers, instructors, practitioners, policymakers, stakeholders, researchers, and learners, circumnavigating the intricacies and big shifts of the 21st-century education landscape dynamics. The book addresses the need for reconstructing higher education space in tandem with 21st-century peculiar demands and the labor market.

Objective

The central thematic concern for this book spins around the paradigm shift in regard to the dynamic space of higher education in the 21st Century. Being abreast with the modern trends in higher education is of paramount importance to the concerned stakeholders. This book will re-tool and rejuvenate higher education managers, facilitators, researchers, and learners with enriching and transformative experiences thus balancing academic rigor with practical skills required to trigger the much sought-after innovative, and lifelong competencies in the 21st century. In the ever-changing landscape of knowledge, skills, and values acquisition and application, higher education has emerged as one of the transformative forces, reshaping how knowledge, skills, and values are conveyed and attained. This handbook serves as a knowledge and skills hub for higher educational stakeholders circumnavigating the 21st-century dynamic space of higher learning. As we strive to make higher education learning a success the focus for this book is clear: to harness the paradigm shift ubiquitous in the 21st century space to shape all-encompassing, engaging, and effective teaching-learning experiences in higher education. Within the chapters, you will find a compendium of insights, policies, strategies, and best practices that will enrich your higher education learning horizons in the 21st century. From the introductory shift on instructional approaches to emerging technologies like artificial intelligence in higher education, this handbook covers the breadth and depth of the shifting landscape of higher education. Whether a seasoned professional or new to the field of higher education, the knowledge contained herein will equip you to elevate your competencies and higher education programs to a desirable level of excellence.Significantly, this handbook will ignite further research on higher education policies, competencies, and governance on the ongoing education transformations.

Target Audience

‘Creating Dynamic Space in Higher Education: Modern Shifts in Policy, Competencies, and Governance’ is an apt and thought-provoking handbook that gives treasured insights to 21st-century education managers, instructors, practitioners, policymakers, stakeholders, researchers, and learners, circumnavigating the intricacies and big-shifts of the 21st-century education landscape dynamics. By providing in-depth on policy shifts, competencies, strategies, directions, challenges, and mitigations, the book provides an all-inclusive view of the transformative higher education that must be embraced to meet the peculiar demands of the 21st century and labor market.

Recommended Topics

This book covers a range of topics which include but not limited to the following: • The Classroom Shift-Moving Beyond Lecture-Based Teaching to Student-Centered Approaches. • Commercialization of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education-Quality Risk/Compromise or Financial Security? • Leadership Dynamics-Embracing Adaptive Leadership Approaches in the Dynamic 21st Century Higher Education. • Faculty Dynamics-Attracting and Retaining Skilled Educators for the 21st Higher Education Agenda. • Financing Dynamics-Declined Higher Education State Funding and Academic Quality Challenges. • Innovative Learning Spaces and Blended Learning- shift to 21st Competency Teaching and Learning Approaches • Balancing academic rigor with practical skills -Move from low-level-order cognitive skills to high-order 21st-century employable skills. • Faculty Changing Roles-Shift from Lecturer/Instructor to Facilitator Role in Class • Shift Towards Collaborations with Industry, Research Organizations, and International Institutions for Enhanced Innovations. • Towards Strengthening Research Capacity and Knowledge Dissemination for Sustainable Development and Climate Change Mitigation. • Shift to Multilingual Education for enhanced Cultural diversity and knowledge Exchange in Higher Education. • From Analogue to Digital Revolution - Transformed Teaching, Learning, and Assessment in Higher Education. • Artificial Intelligence (AI) Ethics and Academic Integrity in Higher Education • Equity, Access, and Inclusive Education Challenges in the 21st Century Higher Education Space • Higher Education Enrollment Upsurge and Quality Control • Higher Education Facilitator Skilling and Re-Tooling in Classroom Digital Tools Utilization • Higher Education contribution to 21st Century changing societal needs • Restructuring Higher Education Governance in the 21st century- Towards Transparent and participatory governance models and Competencies. • The Higher Education Manager /Leader in Tech-driven space. • Fostering Interdisciplinary Research Collaborations-Breaking Disciplinary Silos to Mitigate 21st Century Complex Societal Needs. • The 21st Century Research Paradigm shift in Competencies and Funding. • Fostering a healthy campus environment in the 21st Century devoid of stress, anxiety, and social-related challenges for students and faculty for academic success. • Navigating the 21st Century Globalization and Mobility upsurge in Higher Education • Managing and Coping with Changed 21st Century Student Demographics emanating from their diverse background and experiences. • Strengthening Higher Education Capacity on New Unique 21st Century Crises and Pandemics.

Submission Procedure

Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit on or before May 19, 2024, a chapter proposal of 1,000 to 2,000 words clearly explaining the mission and concerns of his or her proposed chapter. Authors will be notified by June 2, 2024 about the status of their proposals and sent chapter guidelines.Full chapters are expected to be submitted by July 21, 2024, and all interested authors must consult the guidelines for manuscript submissions at https://www.igi-global.com/publish/contributor-resources/before-you-write/ prior to submission. All submitted chapters will be reviewed on a double-anonymized review basis. Contributors may also be requested to serve as reviewers for this project.

Note: There are no submission or acceptance fees for manuscripts submitted to this book publication, Creating Dynamic Space in Higher Education: Modern Shifts in Policy, Competencies, and Governance. All manuscripts are accepted based on a double-anonymized peer review editorial process.

All proposals should be submitted through the eEditorial Discovery® online submission manager.



Publisher

This book is scheduled to be published by IGI Global (formerly Idea Group Inc.), an international academic publisher of the "Information Science Reference" (formerly Idea Group Reference), "Medical Information Science Reference," "Business Science Reference," and "Engineering Science Reference" imprints. IGI Global specializes in publishing reference books, scholarly journals, and electronic databases featuring academic research on a variety of innovative topic areas including, but not limited to, education, social science, medicine and healthcare, business and management, information science and technology, engineering, public administration, library and information science, media and communication studies, and environmental science. For additional information regarding the publisher, please visit https://www.igi-global.com. This publication is anticipated to be released in 2025.



Important Dates

May 19, 2024: Proposal Submission Deadline
June 2, 2024: Notification of Acceptance
July 21, 2024: Full Chapter Submission
August 25, 2024: Review Results Returned
September 22, 2024: Final Acceptance Notification
September 29, 2024: Final Chapter Submission



Inquiries

George Areba
Kisii University
gareba@kisiiuniversity.ac.ke

Billiah Gisore
Kisii University
bgisore@kisiiuniversity.ac.ke

Evelyn Njurai
Kisii University
evelynnjurai@kisiiuniversity.ac.ke



Classifications


Business and Management; Computer Science and Information Technology; Education; Social Sciences and Humanities
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